In December of 2018, the US Government initiated a shutdown of non-essential services. As part of this, I noticed that apps like mPING which are used for reporting weather conditions began to have broken links.

Non-essential Government employees such as the NOAA.gov webmasters threw a tantrum associated with being told that they were “non-essential”. As a result, even though the servers were humming along just fine, these workers blocked access to their content for the duration of the “shutdown” with a message politely explaining that they would be holding their non-essential information hostage until they were allowed to continue suckling at the teet of the State.

I was hoping to find a mirror for the info but couldn’t immediately. Now that the Government has resumed it’s non-essential operations (at great economic expense to innocent Software Engineers like myself), I was able to obtain a copy of the information which I will mirror below.